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Starting from characters, then words, the journey to learning Chinese leads to idioms. Our free resource teaches idioms like 「一命鳴呼」. Explanation below.

This introduction highlights the idiom 「一命鳴呼」, with its meaning and examples explained below.

Refers to death. Often contains humorous meanings.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

yī mìng míng hū

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

yat1 meng6 ming4 fu1

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